Book Description

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Microcomputers in Transportation, held in Baltimore, Maryland, July 22-24, 1992. This collection contains 78 papers describing ways that microcomputers continue to revolutionize the productivity and creativity of transportation professionals and lead to improvements in transportation planning, design, and management processes. Papers describe microcomputer applications in transportation planning, traffic impact analysis, traffic engineering, highway and transit facility design, geographic information systems, accident analysis, economic analysis, information management, project management, and computer tools. Topics include: geographic information systems; transportation planning; traffic and transit operations; transport facility design and management; and computer resources development and application. This collection serves as a reference for new microcomputer applications in the field since it focuses on the actual experience of professionals solving real-world transportation problems.